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Resource December 31, 2014

Gabe Silverman and Nick Miroff on the Palm Oil Industry in Colombia

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Colombia’s fast growing palm oil industry has been a boon to its economy. But behind it is a fight...

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Colombia's fast growing palm oil industry has been a boon to its economy. But behind it is a fight for land as farmers backed by paramilitaries push into indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities.

Nick Miroff and Gabe Silverman of The Washington Post travel to Colombia to investigate the palm oil industry's rise through a decades-long civil war.

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